selenelion
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A lunar eclipse occurring as the Moon sets, simultaneously with sunrise.
Example Sentences
- "This phenomenon is called a "horizontal eclipse" or, from a French term, "selenelion." ... In modern times, the first record seems to date from 1590, when the great astronomer Tycho Brahe saw a selenelion from his observatory ...."
- "2007, William Poole, "Antoine-François Payen, the 1666 Selenelion, and a Rediscovered Letter to Robert Hooke", Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 61, No. 3 (Sep. 22, 2007), pp. 251-263 JSTOR This he immediately published, under the title Selenelion ou Apparition Luni-Solaire .... The coinage ‘selenelion’ was his own .... Payen asserted that refraction on its own could not account for a selenelion..."
- "I decided to watch for an uncommon eclipse phenomenon known as selenelion, seeing the Sun near the horizon and the eclipsed Moon near the opposite horizon at the same time."
- "On Oct. 8, Interested skywatchers should attempt to see the total eclipse of the moon and the rising sun simultaneously. The little-used name for this effect is called a "selenelion," a phenomenon that celestial geometry says cannot happen."
- "Meteorologist Joe Rao points out that this eclipse presents an unusual chance to try seeing a selenelion: when the Sun and eclipsed Moon are both above the horizon at once."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
selenelions (plural)
selenehelion (alternative)
Synonyms
horizontal eclipse